Harvard’s Men Health Watch Editorial Board
Editor in Chief, Harvey B. Simon, MD:
Harvey Simon is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Founding Editor of the Harvard Men's Health Watch. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Simon completed his post-graduate training at Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Institutes of Health. As author of more than 100 scientific articles and medical textbook chapters, he has been an active contributor to medical research. A member of the faculties of both Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Simon is also committed to medical education. He was honored to receive the London Prize for Excellence in Teaching from Harvard and MIT in 1993. As a practicing internist for over 35 years, he has provided primary medical care to thousands of patients.
The author of many consumer health publications, Dr. Simon is dedicated to informing the general public about health and medicine. He has written scores of articles for popular magazines and newspapers, and contributed several articles to a cover story on men’s health in Newsweek magazine, in 2003. Dr. Simon also has authored several books for the general public, including The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men’s Health, The Athlete Within, Staying Well, and Conquering Heart Disease. Another book, The No Sweat Exercise Plan is due for publication by McGraw-Hill in late 2005.
Cardiology- Patrick T. O’Gara, MD:
Patrick O’Gara is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Clinical Cardiology and Vice-Chairman of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He spends the majority of his time in the practice of cardiology and the teaching of students, residents, and advanced fellows. He is the author or co-author of over 100 articles, chapters, and learning aids. He also serves as co-editor of one textbook and one cardiology journal. He has received several awards for teaching and mentoring. In recognition of his contributions to national organizations, he has served as the Chair of the Council on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology. He is actively involved in several writing committees for the development of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
Endocrinology- Gilbert H. Daniels, MD:
Gilbert H. Daniels M.D. is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Co-Director of the Thyroid Clinic and Physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a member of the Endocrine Society and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. He serves on the executive council of the American Thyroid Association. He was on the first Board of Directors of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. He serves on the Editorial Board of Endocrine Practice and the Harvard Men’s Health Watch. He is the recipient of the Harvard Medical School Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the Distinguished Clinician Award of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.
He practices and teaches clinical endocrinology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Gastroenterology- Stanley J. Rosenberg, MD:
Stanley Rosenberg is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He practices and teaches Gastroenterology as a full time faculty member. He has been on the staff for the past 34 years. He currently spends most of his time teaching and performing gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures. He is the past president of the New England Endoscopy Society, and has been director of the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He has a special interest in disorders of swallowing.
Internal Medicine- Christopher M. Coley, MD:
Christopher M. Coley is Assistant Chief of Medicine for Quality Assurance and a Senior Attending Physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston where he completed his training in Internal Medicine in 1986. He completed medical school at Harvard. He also serves as Special Assistant to the MGH Chief Medical Officer on Medication Safety and Cost-Effective Pharmaceutical Care at MGH. Dr. Coley is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is the former Chief of Medicine, Harvard University Health Service. He co-chairs or serves on numerous committees at MGH and Partner’s related to medical quality and safety.
Dr. Coley has practiced primary care general medicine at MGH for over 20 years and supervises residents and Harvard Medical students on the inpatient teaching service each year for one month. He completed fellowship training in clinical epidemiology and decision theory and has authored over 50 journal articles, monographs, and book chapters. His research interests include prostate cancer and prostate-related health, cardiovascular disease and peri-operative management.
Dr. Coley has been on the Editorial Board of the Harvard Men’s Health Watch since 1997 and is an Ad Hoc Reviewer for several medical journals.
Internal Medicine- Stephen E. Goldfinger, MD:
Dr. Goldfinger is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and is a member of the Gastroenterology Unit of the Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as Harvard Medical School's Faculty Dean for Continuing Education between 1973 and 2000. Until 1999, Dr. Goldfinger also served as director of the Harvard Health Publishing Group and editor-in-chief of the Harvard Health Letter. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Goldfinger majored in philosophy at Princeton University and then received his medical degree from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his residency and chief residency in medicine, as well as a fellowship in gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Goldfinger also spent two years at the National Institute for Arthritis and Metabolic Disease. He has served as a Director of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and was also Massachusetts Governor for the American College of Physicians.
Internal Medicine- Russell S. Phillips, MD:
Dr. Russell S. Phillips is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). He is Director of the Harvard Medical School Faculty Development and Fellowship Programs in General Internal Medicine and in Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He received the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentorship Award from HMS in 1999. His grant support includes a Mid-Career Investigator Award from the NIH, and he is Principal Investigator of two NIH studies. The first is a pilot grant to examine the feasibility of providing massage to patients with cancer related symptoms, and the second is a large randomized clinical trail of Tai Chi for patients with heart failure. Dr. Phillips graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received his MD from Stanford University, and completed his residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital. Dr. Phillips is very active in the Society of General Internal Medicine, having served as Chair of their Research Committee. He is also a member of the Council of Distinguished Scholars at the Center of Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities at Harvard Medical School, and serves on the Promotions and Reappointments Committee at HMS. Dr. Phillips is also a practicing general internist, and manages a patient panel of approximately 450 patients at Healthcare Associates at BIDMC.
Neurology- Colin McDonald, MD:
Since, July, 2002, Dr. Colin McDonald has served as the Director of the Stroke Program at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, MA. Previously, he was on staff in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital. An accomplished speaker, Dr. McDonald was awarded the Teacher of the Year Award by the Partners Neurology Residents in 2002.
Dr. McDonald remains very active in developing technologies to treat stroke patients effectively in the community hospital setting. He is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer of Brain Saving Technologies, Inc. (Wellesley Hills, MA). BST is utilizing advanced digital video medicine to bring experts to the bedside 24 hours a day for the rapid evaluation and treatment of patients with suspected stroke. Dr. McDonald also serves on the Medical Advisory Board of Neurologica, Inc. (Danvers, MA) which is developing the world's first truly portable head only CT scanner.
Dr. McDonald received his undergraduate and medical school training at Washington University in St. Louis. He spent his internship in Medicine at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. He then completed his training at MGH in adult neurology with fellowship training in neurointensive care. He is a former Chief Resident at MGH.
Oncology- Marc B. Garnick, MD:
Dr. Marc B. Garnick is an internationally renowned expert on urologic cancer. He has dedicated his career to the development of new drug therapies and maintains a practice at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he maintains many teaching responsibilities. Dr. Garnick received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed his internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He has also completed a research and clinical fellowships with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School.
He is a member of numerous professional organizations, as well as several editorial boards for peer-reviewed publications. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Garnick has authored more than 350 written works, including 5 books, peer reviewed articles and letters. Most recently, he co-authored an article entitled "Combating Prostate Cancer" which appeared in the Scientific American. He has written a book titled “A Patient's Guide to Prostate Cancer” and recently authored “Screening for Prostate Cancer” published by the American College of Physicians’s Physician Information and Education Resource. He is also the senior medical advisor to World Book Encyclopedia. Dr. Garnick recently received the Distinguished Alumni Service Award from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Orthopedics- John M. Siliski, MD:
John Siliski is an orthopaedic surgeon who practices at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His clinical and research interests are related to adult hip and knee reconstruction. He is the author of a text on knee injuries, and has written numerous book chapters and journal articles. He is a member of the AAOS, CAOS, Knee Society, and AAHKS. He also serves as an examiner for the ABOS.
Otolaryngology- Gregory W. Randolph, MD:
Gregory Randolph is an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Surgeon at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary. He trained at Cornell and Harvard medical schools. He directs two Divisons at the Infirmary serving as Director of the General Otolaryngology Division since 1995 and founding and Directing the Division of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery. Dr. Randolph has been invited to open a thyroid and parathyroid surgical practice at Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Surgery’s Endocrine Surgical Service, seeing patients and operating at both Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary and Mass General Hospital. Surgical activity also includes minimally invasive thyroid and parathyroid surgery, otolaryngologic and head and neck cancer surgery, surgery for airway stenosis, sinus surgery and surgery for obstructive sleep apnea.
Dr. Randolph is a national and international leader in recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring during thyroid and parathyroid surgery has lead thyroid surgical missions to thyroid surgical units in St. Petersburg, Russia, Guangzhou, China, and in the Chernobyl region of the Ukraine. He has helped to develop a surgical neural monitoring program at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary which allows a surgeon performing thryroid surgery to intraoperatively monitor the recurrent laryngeal nerve. He directs the Harvard Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Course for surgeons and directs international surgical courses in Italy, Germany and Russia.
Dr. Randolph has written extensively on thyroid and parathyroid surgery with special emphasis on recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring and preservation during surgery. He has recently published an endocrine surgical text: “Surgery of the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands” published by Saunders 2003. This text is a comprehensive interdisciplinary guide for all aspects of thyroid and parathyroid surgery, preoperative evaluation, imaging, anatomy, technique, pathology and postoperative management of the thyroid and parathyroid glands. This text has been nominated for a publishing industry award as a new and innovative surgical text.
Preventive Medicine- Edward L. Giovannucci, MD:
Dr. Giovannucci is a Professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He graduated from Harvard University in 1980, received a medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1984, and did his residency in anatomic pathology at the University of Connecticut. He received a doctoral degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1992.
His research focuses on how nutritional, environmental and lifestyle factors relate to various malignancies, especially those of the prostate and colorectum. A specific area of interest is the etiologic mechanisms underlying the relation between these modifiable factors and cancer risk. His work has included the study of how nutrition and other lifestyle factors impact on cancer risk by influencing levels of insulin, insulin-like growth factors, vitamin D metabolites, and steroid hormones. Another area of interest is how nutrients may interact with genetic susceptibilities in determining an individual's risk. This work includes genetic variation in the vitamin D receptor, folate metabolizing enzymes, and the androgen receptor. Recent work on prostate cancer has focussed on the beneficial role of specific antioxidants, particularly lycopene and selenium, and on the potentially deleterious effects of diets high in calcium.
Dr. Giovannucci was recently received the 2005 DeWitt-Goodman Award for excellence in cancer research from the American Association for Cancer Research.
Psychiatry- Greg L. Fricchione, MD:
Dr. Fricchione has been at Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 1993 when he was appointed an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and director of the Medical Psychiatry Service at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Since July 2002 he has been Associate Chief of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and Director of the Division of Psychiatry and Medicine and the Division of International Psychiatry. In 2000, he joined the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, while on leave of absence from HMS. While there he worked with Mrs. Rosalynn Carter and former President Jimmy Carter on public and international mental health issues and policy.
Fricchione received his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine. He is board certified in psychiatry and has added qualifications in geriatric psychiatry. Besides his clinical experience in general hospital psychiatry, Dr. Fricchione is committed to education. He has taught in the medical schools at New York University, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Auckland in New Zealand and at Emory University as well as at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fricchione has been an active researcher in psychiatric medicine. He has made contributions to the treatment of patients with catatonia and to the management of cardiac patients who suffer from co-morbid psychiatric conditions. He is a co-author of the MGH Handbook on General Hospital Psychiatry (2004) and Catatonia; From Psychopathology to Neurobiology (2004).
Radiation Oncology- William U. Shipley, MD:
Dr. Shipley completed his medical degree at Harvard Medical School in 1966. After internship and 2 years of surgical residency at the Massachusetts Genera Hospital, he trained in Radiation Oncology at the Harvard Joint Center and then was in London for one year on the HMS Moseley Fellowship. He is the Andres Soriano Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Harvard Medical School and the Head of Genito-Urinary Oncology in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. After joining the staff at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1974, Dr. Shipley became a leader in clinical research in the area of genitourinary oncology evaluating multi-modality cancer care. He entered into a very special cooperation with his MGH colleagues in urology, in medical oncology, in radiation oncology and in pathology resulting in the implementation of seven successive national protocols for muscle-invading bladder cancer patients using a multi-modality approach which allowed over two thirds of those patients so-treated to escape without receiving radical bladder-removing surgery. In prostate cancer Professor Shipley helped develop and lead 10 randomized clinical trials using radiation therapy evaluating the advantages of high dose proton beam irradiation and evaluating in the National Radiation Group, the RTOG, the benefits of combining androgen deprivation with radiation in men with localized prostatic cancer. Professor Shipley holds many national and international leadership positions on committees and consensus panels in genitourinary oncology.
Surgery- David W. Rattner, MD:
Dr. Rattner received his MD degree from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1978. He trained as an intern and resident in Surgery at The Massachusetts General Hospital from 1978- 1985. Dr Rattner was then appointed to the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Surgery. In 1999 he became the Chief of the Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery. He was made Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School in 2003. Dr Rattner has been active in numerous national surgical organizations. He is a trustee of The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT), President –elect of the Boston Surgical Society, a former governor of The American College of Surgeons(ACS), and immediate Past President of The Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons(SAGES) . He is also an active member of The American Surgical Association, The Society of Surgical Oncology, and The Halsted Society. Dr Rattner has authored more than 125 original publications and 50 book chapters. Dr Rattner was one of the founding members of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization and currently serves on this organization’s Board of Trustees. Dr Rattner was a founding member of CIMIT( The Center for Innovative Minimally Invasive Therapies). His areas of research include gastrointestinal disease, minimally invasive therapies and The Operating Room of the Future.
Urology- William C. DeWolf, MD:
William Dewolf is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Urologist-in-Chief at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Dewolf has been trained in both General Surgery and Urology and has completed a transplantation fellowship at the University of Minnesota. Likewise he has completed 3 years of research training in immunogenetics as an American Urologic Assocation (AUA) Scholar and National Kidney Foundation Scholar at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston. In addition, he received a postgraduate award from the AUA to complete a one year sabbatical in Molecular Genetics in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. He has received several NIH grants including a Research Career Development Award. Dr. Dewolf has published over 250 papers, abstracts and chapters and has received several teaching awards. He is active within the American Urological Association and is a past president of the National Urologic Forum.
Urology- Niall M. Heney, MD:
Dr. Heney is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Urologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.